Aimar, S;
(2019)
Disposition Ascriptions.
Philosophical Studies
, 176
pp. 1667-1692.
10.1007/s11098-018-1084-9.
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Abstract
I argue that disposition ascriptions - claims like ‘the glass is fragile’ - are semantically equivalent to possibility claims: they are true when the given object manifests the disposition in at least one of the relevant possible worlds.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Disposition Ascriptions |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11098-018-1084-9 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-018-1084-9 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s) 2018. Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
| Keywords: | Dispositional adjectives, Disposition ascriptions, Modality, Possibility claims, Dispositions, Gradable adjectives, Manifestations |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Philosophy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10045104 |
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